Life Sciences

I know not if the dark or bright
Shall be my lot;
If that wherein my hopes delight
Be best or not.

Ampliat ætatis spatium sibi vir bonus: hoc est vivere bis, vita posse priore frui.
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.

The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man. In reality, however, the question is what is his attitude to the world and all life that comes within his reach. A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, and that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help. Only the universal ethic of the feeling of responsibility in an ever-widening sphere for all that lives—only that ethic can be founded in thought…. The ethic of Reverence for Life, therefore, comprehends within itself everything that can be described as love, devotion, and sympathy whether in suffering, joy, or effort.